So this year, we have decided to make our Christmas newsletter a bit more graphically-pleasing, but that doesn't translate well to a blog post, so please bear with me while I rework it into a post...
Serena and Charlie have fully recovered from Hurricane Harvey and are enjoying their house on the edge of the Buffalo Bayou. 2018 was a big year for the Hedgepeths, who started down the road of “fostering to adopt” in January. It took 6 months, but in late July they were placed with a 2-day old infant. “Baby Ty” has been with them ever since, and even traveled to North Carolina in November to meet his cousins, aunts and uncles, and great grandparents! In other news, Charlie started work in August as a web designer at Alliant Group where Serena works.
Cassie and Cole moved their family to Angier back in May — to a 3-bedroom house with a fenced yard. Jaxon started kindergarten this fall, in a regular classroom. We are so proud of his progress! Gracie started preschool and loves going to “school” every day! She also started dance this fall at Center Stage, where Kennedy danced for so many years! Cassie became a full-time Cisco employee this fall and Cole is now a manager with Pest & Termite Control. We love that they only live a couple of miles from us!
Sam and Danny have both had a productive year! Back in the spring, they moved into a house together in Fuquay-Varina with a friend and have been slowly acquiring furniture and household goods. Sam left Metal Supermarkets for a short-term job delivering construction materials and has just recently secured a full-time job at Lowe’s Home Improvement! Danny finally secured his permanent status as a DELL employee in November and is finally enjoying the fruits of his labor as a contractor for the last two years — especially the paid time off, health benefits, and 401K!
This year,
Kennedy transferred from UNC-Greensboro to NC State University to continue her degree in social work. She works as a nanny and at O2 Fitness. She struggled with some health issues this year but was finally diagnosed with untreated Lyme Disease this fall and is now getting some help with treatment options. She is commuting to classes right now, but plans to move to campus for her senior year. Kennedy spent Thanksgiving in Paris with her good friend, Kara Porter, who has been studying abroad this semester. Kennedy is preparing for her own study abroad experience in Ghana in Summer 2019.Mark and Lynanne
sold the family homestead in mid-2018, and moved to a new house just a few miles south with 1/2 an acre of land and enough room for Lynanne’s parents, Barb & Darryl Hamson. The Hamson’s home in Virginia still hasn’t sold, but they are already moved in and getting to know their new community! Our brewery, 3rd Degree Brewhouse, opened for business in May, and we have been happily brewing and selling beer ever since! Our big adventure this year, however, was a 2-week trip to Ireland that we had been hoping to take for years!! Lynanne and Mark also are enjoying new jobs — Lynanne started at Campbell University as an admissions coordinator and Mark switched from IBM to Nutanix as a systems reliability engineer.
That's it in a nutshell! We hope your family is healthy and happy and we'll see you next year! :)
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